Paraguayan President Santiago Peña will be traveling to Santiago for a meeting with his Chilean colleague Gabriel Boric Font on Monday and a conference at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on Tuesday, among other engagements. Peña will stay in the Chilean capital until Nov. 8, it was also announced.
“Here in Illinois, we recognize that our elders thrive when they remain in our communities as they age,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker said. “The PACE program is an innovative model that delivers a much-needed alternative to traditional nursing facility care.”
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Dr. Nahiris Bahamon says she gets many questions on the COVID-19 vaccine from patients who primarily speak Spanish, and she laments the scarcity of reliable information for people in that community.
“There’s not a big effort to educate our communities that speak Spanish as a primary language, especially on complex information like science and medical information in a vaccine,” said Bahamon, a pediatrician at Esperanza Health Center in Little Village.
Esperanza Health Centers is a community clinic that serves Chicago’s Latino and mostly Mexican neighborhoods on the Southwest Side, with clinics in Little Village, Gage Park, Marquette Park and Brighton Park.